Beef Stew

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 lbs stew meat
• 1 large onion
• 4 -5 teaspoons chopped garlic
• 2 stalks celery
• 5 carrots
• 1 green pepper (optional)
• 1 red pepper (optional)
• 2 potatoes (optional)
• 2 (10 ounce) cans mushrooms or 2 (10 ounce) packages fresh mushrooms
• salt
• pepper
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 -2 tablespoon sugar
• dried parsley
• 2 -3 tablespoons flour

Recipe

• 1 saute onions and garlic until onions are clear. put into a bowl.
• 2 saute meat until brown.
• 3 add veggies and onion mixture and saute about 5 minutes.
• 4 pour in can of tomato sauce, then refill can with water and pour that in as well.
• 5 add salt, pepper, parsley, and sugar.
• 6 cover and simmer for about an hour (or until meat is tender).
• 7 in a separate pan, mix some gravy from the pot with flour until it forms a thick liquid. add to the stew.